Victory over Japan Day is marked each year on 15 August - the date in 1945 when Japan surrendered to the Allied forces and World War Two ended.

The Emperor reiterated his strong desire to pass down memories of World War II in his address at the annual memorial ceremony ...

Friday was the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of Japan’s World War II surrender, but as living witnesses die and memories fade, questions remain in Japan about how the war ...

Even after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was not universally expected that Japan would ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On August 15, 1945, the world celebrated victory over Japan and the end of World War II after two atomic ...

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party's rise to power in Germany is the subject of countless books, articles, and documentaries, ...

TOKYO (AP) — Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito's announcement of Japan's World War II surrender, but as ...

Mr Hilling, who joined the RAF in April 1944 before being transferred to the Army and serving in India in 1945 before his ...

COMMENTARY: On the 80th anniversary of the Allies’ victory over Japan in World War II, it is essential that we look at our ...

This week in Japan is Obon, the millennia-old festival based on the traditional belief that the spirits of the ancestors ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still ...

As the 80th anniversary of V-J Day approaches, veteran Caster Salemi reflects on his World War II experiences at Hudson's ...